That site continues the argument that my new favorite commentator Rush (not seriously but if he and I agree on something, it must be true) has thoroughly debunked.
The flag that was removed is for the purposes of the debate on racism; the Confederate flag. It is recognized by so many people as a symbol of an attempt to continue to treat negroes like farm animals that to label those people stupid or misinformed would be to do so to the majority of people in this country.
In any case, South Carolina's past history is safe and sound. Ben Tillman's statue isn't going anywhere soon.
Which is really a bigger deal in a way. I personally would pay to have another plaque installed on the base of the statue, under the one that says "..Hero of the South, friend of the common people",
reading: "We of the South have never recognized the right of the negro to govern white men, and we never will. We have never believed him to be the equal of the white man, and we will not submit to his gratifying his lust on our wives and daughters without lynching him. I would to God the last one of them was in Africa and that none of them had ever been brought to our shores.
-South Carolina Governor Benjamin Tillman"